Last updated December 20, 2024

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Serverless Database Query Performance

Serverless databases are databases that are hosted on a serverless platform.
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US flagus-west-1
US flagus-east-1
CA flagca-central-1
BR flagsa-east-1
DE flageu-central-1
GB flageu-west-2
FR flageu-west-3
SE flageu-north-1
IT flageu-south-1
ZA flagaf-south-1
SG flagap-southeast-1
JP flagap-northeast-1
HK flagap-east-1
AU flagap-southeast-2
KR flagap-northeast-2

FAQ

All primary databases are located in us-east-1 region.

Serverless Database features

Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.

Feature
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite

N/A

Postgres, AWS, Azure

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API

N/A

HTTP and WebSocket connections

@neondatabase/serverless package (optional)

Edge Functions

Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance.

Cloudflare Workers runtime

N/A
Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP

N/A

OLTP

Data model

Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based

Relational, SQL

N/A

Relational, SQL

CLI

Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line.

Cloudflare Workers runtime

N/A

neonctl

Languages, APIs

The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication

TypeScript, JavaScript inside Cloudflare worker functions

N/A

All languages and ORMs supporting Postgres, Drizzle, Prisma, Node, Go, Java, Rust, PHP

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL

N/A

SQL, PostgreSQL

ACID compliant

ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps
ACID compliant
N/A
ACID compliant

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Doesn't have support, Only for local development
N/A
Open source

Backups

Backups run every hour automatically. Stores backups of your database in R2
N/A

PITR and Daily backups available for all, scheduled backups available for paid plans

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data.
N/A

Multi-factor authentication

Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication
N/A
Coming soon

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level
N/A
N/A

AES Encryption at rest, TLS v1.3

SSO

N/A
N/A

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes
N/A
N/A
Log export for paid plans

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance
N/A
N/A

Web dashboard, export metrics for paid plans

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network

N/A

Autoscaling Compute and Memory from zero to 16 CPU and Logical Replication